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TWICE EXCEPTIONAL at Stargazers for the Achieve With Us Colorado Film Festival
Looking forward to seeing Samuel Faux’s film, TWICE EXCEPTIONAL, this Friday at Stargazers. Join us! https://www.facebook.com/events/1550198041696787/ The Arc Pikes Peak Region’s 6th Annual Achieve with Us Colorado Film Festival: Join the Dance, is set for Friday, March 23, at Stargazers Theater, and features simple yet powerful films to improve the … Read more »
2018 Short Circuit Film Festival Features 8 YDA films
YDA will be screening 8 films at this year’s Colorado Short Circuit Film Festival, hosted by the Independent Film Society of Colorado. April 13/14th SURVIVING by Tea Santos MEET ME IN THE PALE MOONLIGHT by Avon Schultz LOVE ME by Joshua Sun WE EXIST by Anabelle Martinez FINDING HOME by Yolande … Read more »
Andy Kwiatkowski Receives Letter from the Mayor of Fort Collins
Following the screening of LONELY HIGHWAY at the 6th Annual Achieve With Us Film Festival for the Arc of Larimer County, Andy received a letter from the Mayor of Fort Collins. He said, “I think your film caused change in the hearts and minds of many people,” and we wholeheartedly agree. … Read more »
Antreise Lacey interviewed on ‘Director’s Cut’
Our own Antreise Lacey continues to “evoke change” with her interview on ‘Director’s Cut’, a program of Hofstra University, about her YDA documentary SHADE. (Interview starts at 15min)
2017 Year in Review
In 2017 the Youth Documentary Academy (YDA) grew by leaps and bounds. Not only did we graduate a new class of twelve dynamic filmmakers, our new YDA Impact Team engaged our growing collection of over 50 YDA films to audiences around the Pikes Peak region and nationwide. Our films explore … Read more »
Family and Faith addressed in YDA films and local newspaper
Author: J. Adrian Stanley “We can see the progress that they’re making — I don’t think it’s unlike therapy,” he says, adding that YDA recently added a psychologist to its board, with hopes of exploring the phenomenon further. And he wonders if he too would have benefited from a chance … Read more »
YDA is selected for the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival
Congratulations to Joshua Sun (LOVE ME), Tea Santos (SURVIVING), Hadassah Nix (LABELED), Angel Baeza (FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE), and Yolande Morrison (FINDING HOME) for being selected for the 2017 Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival. See details below for screening information. https://rmwfilminstitute.org/films/student-spotlight-youth-documentary-academy
YDA’s Tea Santos Wins Documentary Film Award!
Joshua Sun and Tea Santos, two graduates of YDA, have been nominated for awards at the 2017 Pikes Peak Arts Council Awards this October. Both filmmakers are nominated in two categories, ‘Excellent Experimental or Documentary Film’ and ‘Young Filmmaker’. LOVE ME directed by Josh Sun, explores the cultural differences – and tensions – between … Read more »
Two YDA Films to Broadcast on Vermont PBS
Four YDA films were selected for the 2017 Scout Film Festival in Stowe Vermont. Of those four, YDA walked off the stage with two winners: Andy Kwiatkowski won Best Documentary for LONELY HIGHWAY, and Kalia Hunter won Best Cinamatography for DOM. Vermont PBS partnered with Scout to showcase the … Read more »
YDA headed to the BIG APPLE!
Excitement is in the air as Kalia Hunter, Dee Contreras, and Shaienne Knox are off to the BIG APPLE for the All-American High School Film Festival where their films will screen at the AMC Theater in Times Square. We couldn’t be more proud of these ladies, and the 5 other … Read more »
While walking around Boulder, so many people came up to me and my dad to thank me for making AFTER WAR.
Bailey Francisco, 17
